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Play · Band-Maid

EXERCISE 20 OF 65
Fill at bar 36
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0 / 65 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART O
PART B
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART O
PART AI
PART AO
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFBORAO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Play on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-49, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 51-53, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x-----x--------x--x--------------------------|
Play -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part O and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-59 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Play?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Play hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Play?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED